#IBPYP 9-10 yr old students' curiosities lead to deep inquiries. #WWAPT Our Bilingual program students show ideas in Chinese on Zheng He (13th century diplomat & explorer). Inquiring how past discoveries manifest in China & world. #keyconcepts #causation #change # perspective.

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Auschwitz, 2018. More women survived Holocaust bc they upheld education & culture, secretly, in camps. In Block 16A (children's barracks), women taught, created books & plays secretly @ life's stake. Lesson? Education keeps human dignity intact. Hence, education saves lives.

Books, NOT bullets: WEF covers how Indonesia's increase in schools to 60, 000 has decreased violence in politically & culturally volatile areas. Mandela states, "if people are taught to hate, then they can be taught to love". Lesson? Build GOOD schools. weforum.org/agenda/2019/05…

A valuable resource that "disrupts" the traditional mould and approach of the PYP Exhibition. Great stuff Stephanie Thompson! Ryan Sayer @mrschelseayoung Kent Jamieson @deir75 Worth having a good read of it! traintheteacher.me/2019/05/19/bri…

Take apart & put things together in unique, creative ways (SteAm):Visual analogy for one of my beliefs on "learning"-"un-learning"-"re-learning". All key ingredients to new knowledge construction in inquiry @deir75 Joe Sergi Joe Teft Ryan Sayer Michael David Black

@CISPrimary In #HWOO #leadership #community unit, languages burst on walls! THANKS @ChessMcGeary & BML course. G5 brims w/ #multilingual vocab & ideas (Greek, Russian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish etc) #internationalmindedness As #3rdculturekid w/ 5 langs.=#identity

#IBEN #HWOO #leadership As deep as I am in #artificialintelligence groups of SG, pen-paper wins here. 11-12 yr olds used soc.psych survey on leadership (WeDay) & synthesised it w/ IB LP. New knowledge + deep question=success in inquiry. AI says, "Human creativity precedes tech".

#IBEN #designagency #STEMed G4 ss will #design a "perfect playground" model /proposal in #HTWW. Before making, they questioned types of design cycles. Can we create a cycle that works for us? All about creating #NEWknowledge to "disrupt" what is already known. #multilingual vocab

#pypconnected Found old pics from 10 yrs ago when I was a young teacher in Tokyo. Fun: I ran robotics & coding club 10 yrs ago. I took kids outside for math to learn math. I set up penpal pgms b/w Tokyo & Malay schools. Ques: "How did you change as an educator over the yrs?"

15 yrs ago: Left finance in Toronto to be ELL coordinator for Ministry of Edu in Mihama village, Japan. Fun: I intro. village to Halloween. Got board, media & businesses funds. Made props/game booths. Got villagers to open up homes for trick-treaters. Made the news. I miss JP.

Got my CIS G6 division to visit the Nexus #PYPX. Very interesting, creative & student-focused. The word "Exhibition" replaced w/ "Expedition" bc it was an expedition unto oneself / self-discovery / self-development to become better people!

1st tweet in a while. New leadership role for the biggest American copper & gold mining company. As part of the exec team, sitting with execs of the corporation & generals for independence day. Here to improve quality of systems & operations for company's non-profit IB schools.

Transversing b/w 2 worlds: Corporate & education. Busy days of meetings of setting strategy to action w/ both corporate & educational sections. Company's infrastructure is deeply connected to how the IB schools develop in every way from teaching, learning & community projects.

Loving life & leadership role: From 8 mths ago, didn't think that I would be in choppers for work in not-for-profit IB PYP private schools in jungles and mountains owned by biggest gold & copper mining company in the world. Change management: Academic & operations alignment.

My role & work visa stipulation in volatile, permit-only zones: Govt & gold-copper mining co. has agreement that they bring me in w/ specific skills to build national leadership in edu. Completed projects: Collaborative policy making. Leadership dev. Academic operation alignment.

My Saturday nights in this remote, unique, deep, dark jungle: The jungle stillness, animal sounds & fireflies outside my big house inspire me to work non-stop w/ dogged focus & clear mind. Did a 25 % task in 1 day. How to create pgms. on learning theories. Cake for brain fuel.

People of my hometown #Siena sing a popular song from their houses along an empty street to warm their hearts during the Italian #Covid_19 #lockdown. #coronavirusitalia #COVID19 #coronavirus

My strategic goal this year: Develop student-centred competencies within teachers. We can't impose "student-centred" unless we have the research on teacher beliefs & values in order to facilitate the specific competencies within educators themselves. christenseninstitute.org/wp-content/upl…

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